Acting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act |
Acting
(a.) Operating in any way. |
Acting
(a.) Doing duty for another |
Air brake
() A railway brake operated by condensed air. |
Beetle brow
() An overhanging brow. |
Brake
() imp. of Break. |
Brake
(n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
Brake
(n.) A thicket |
Brake
(v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. |
Brake
(v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. |
Brake
(v. t.) A baker's kneading though. |
Brake
(v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. |
Brake
(v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him |
Brake
(v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. |
Brake
(v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing |
Brake
(v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. |
Brake
(v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome |
Brake
(v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. |
Brake
(v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. |
Brake
() of Break |
Brow
(n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. |
Brow
(n.) The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes) |
Brow
(n.) The forehead |
Brow
(n.) The general air of the countenance. |
Brow
(n.) The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place |
Brow
(v. t.) To bound to limit |
Dare-devil
(n.) A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively |
Decline
(v. i.) To bend, or lean downward |
Decline
(v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction |
Decline
(v. i.) To turn or bend aside |
Decline
(v. i.) To turn away |
Decline
(v. t.) To bend downward |
Decline
(v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish. |
Decline
(v. t.) To put or turn aside |
Decline
(v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of |
Decline
(v. t.) To run through from first to last |
Decline
(v. i.) A falling off |
Decline
(v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence |
Decline
(v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties |
Devil
(n.) The Evil One |
Devil
(n.) An evil spirit |
Devil
(n.) A very wicked person |
Devil
(n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation. |
Devil
(n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered |
Devil
(n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. |
Devil
(v. t.) To make like a devil |
Devil
(v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper |
Devil-diver
(n.) Alt. of Devil bird |
Devil bird
(n.) A small water bird. See Dabchick. |
| apache devil dance | a ritual dance of the Apache |
acting
playing playacting
performing | the performance of a part or role in a drama |
method acting
method | an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed |
| the devil | something difficult or awkward to do or deal with, it will be the devil to solve |
| incline bench press | a bench press performed on an inclined bench |
diabolatry
demonolatry
devil-worship | the acts or rites of worshiping devils |
devil ray
Mobula hypostoma | small manta (to feet) that travels in schools |
mountain devil
spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
Tasmanian devil
ursine dasyure
Sarcophilus hariisi | small ferocious carnivorous marsupial having a mostly black coat and long tail |
dragonfly
darning needle
devil's darning needle
sewing needle
snake feeder
snake doctor
mosquito hawk
skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
| airbrake dive brake | a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft |
amobarbital sodium
blue
blue angel
blue devil
Amytal | the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate, used as a sedative and a hypnotic |
| brake | a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle |
| brake | anything that slows or hinders a process, she wan not ready to put the brakes on her life with a marriage, new legislation will put the brakes on spending |
| brake band | a band that can be tightened around a shaft to stop its rotation |
brake cylinder
hydraulic brake cylinder
master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
brake drum
drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes |
| brake lining | the lining on the brake shoes that comes in contact with the brake drum |
| brake pad | one of the pads that apply friction to both sides of the brake disk |
| brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder |
brake shoe
shoe skid | a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation |
brake system
brakes | a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle |
| coaster brake | a brake on a bicycle that engages with reverse pressure on the pedals |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe |
dumb bomb
gravity bomb | a bomb that falls because of gravity and is not guided to a target |
| foot brake | hydraulic brake operated by pressing on a foot pedal |
| gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
hand brake
emergency
emergency brake
parking brake | a brake operated by hand, usually operates by mechanical linkage |
hydraulic brake
hydraulic brakes | brake system in which a brake pedal moves a piston in the master cylinder, brake fluid then applies great force to the brake pads or shoes |
| power brake | a brake on an automobile that magnifies a small force applied to the brake pedal into a proportionately larger force applied to slow or stop the vehicle |
ramp
incline | an inclined surface connecting two levels |
secobarbital sodium
secobarbital
Seconal
red devil | barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions |
| shooting brake | another name for a station wagon |
graveness
gravity
sobriety soberness
somberness
sombreness | a manner that is serious and solemn |
| specific gravity | the density of a substance relative to the density of water |
eyebrow
brow supercilium | the arch of hair above each eye |
brow
forehead | the part of the face above the eyes |
theory of gravitation
theory of gravity
gravitational theory
Newton's theory of gravitation | (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them |
| acting out | (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words), considered to be healthy and therapeutic |
| acting out | a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult |
devil
deuce
dickens | a word used in exclamations of confusion, what the devil, the deuce with it, the dickens you say |
| stoplight brake light | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop |
gravity wave
gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
| brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
gravity
solemnity | a solemn and dignified feeling |
devil's food
devil's food cake | very dark chocolate cake |
| brake | an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant |
center of gravity
centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |